Jacob Finkelman

Jacob Finkelman (January 17, 1907 – December 21, 2003) QC OC was a Canadian legal scholar and jurist.

[4] William Paul McClure Kennedy, then dean of the faculty, spoke in favour of the appointment to Robert Falconer, the university's president.

[1] Finkelman presided over his first labour arbitration in 1937, when he was asked by a garment union to adjudicate a dispute.

[9] In 1967, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson named Finkelman the first chair of the Public Service Staff Relations Board (now the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board), a federal tribunal.

[1][11] He was appointed an officer of the Order of Canada in 1976[12] and received an honorary LLD from York University in 1977.